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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Oct 28

Starting a thread 🧵 on #gamedesign nuggets of wisdom...

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 2d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 1d

Wait until you show them the magic of tables that can be automatically referenced by name from other sheets...

I've used dynamic drop downs a fair amount in the past too.

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 1d

This is one of my all time favourite videos, essential viewing for system designers.

XaiaX (spooky ̆̈) @xaiax.net · 2d

The amount of information in this video is incredible and most people have no idea how bad they are at using Excel.

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 2d

Never a truer word said.

Controversial, especially ill informed, hot takes or hosts dominating the airtime with guests present are two of the quickest ways for me to 'ring that bell', and unsubscribe.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 12d

All the best, Herve!

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 13d

First heard about this from someone at Develop, they are hooked on it!

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 17d

Best lace up my punters too

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 18d

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Star Wars Holocron @swholocron.bsky.social · 18d

Love this shot or Grogu and the Anzellans in THE MANDALORIAN AND GROGU

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Zapathie 🧿 @zapathie.bsky.social · 19d

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 25d

Just wait until someone plots this on a cube via a 3rd axis - Critical Reception

Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 26d

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames).

The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 27d

This is the closest you can get to a pad smasher on Everybody's Golf

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · 28d

Yes Andy! Nice one

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Kayin Amoh @kayinamoh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Stolen from Reddit, because it's great.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Sep 10

I've finished them all (except Atari)

Brilliant way to encapsulate nostalgia and development insights through interaction.

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Isaac Feldberg @isaacfeldberg.bsky.social · Sep 7

REBEL RIDGE has won Best TV Movie at the Emmys.

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Sep 5

Is it basically a variation of an Escape Room?

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Lumin @screwy.bsky.social · Sep 3

That scene from 1989 Batman where the Joker pulls out a comically long revolver from his trousers, but the revolver is replaced with the aforementioned 32:9 handheld instead

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 30

Megaladon in Battlefield 4!

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Matty! @mattythemouse.bsky.social · Aug 29

What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.

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Charlie Ashby @charlie-ashby.co.uk · Aug 26

This is one of those films I’m fascinated to see the reaction too between UK/US.

For US audiences, seems like a fun story for Bradley Cooper to do a movie about.

For UK audiences, we’re like WAIT THIS IS BASED ON JOHN BISHOP’S LIFE? youtu.be/TE5v3U79i6s?...

IS THIS THING ON? | Teaser Trailer | Searchlight Pictures

YouTube video by SearchlightPictures

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 24

I've 100%'d it twice!

Once on N64 and then again on Game Pass. Quality.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 24

He's basically Midwest Voldemort.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 24

He recently turned up in Dead To Me, playing almost exactly the same kind of character.

I think he might have been in Banshee or Sons of Anarchy too.

Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 23

"I don't care what anyone says, I like that movie."

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Jamie Smith @smithstock.bsky.social · Aug 21

Finally set up my Meta Quest 3, just discovered Walkabout Mini Golf... ⛳

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " and it begins " below her

ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland with the words " and it begins " below her

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